“Happiness” by Jane Kenyon There’s just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squandered a fortune far away. And how can you not forgive? You make a feast in honor of what was lost, and take from its place
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Going to school with Juana Alicia is always an adventure. Juana Alicia is a community leader in Mampuján and also teaches what we would call home-economics but here is called Preparation and Manipulation of Alimentation in the neighbouring community of San Pablo. I am, by the way, a famous person in San Pablo because I
Here’s a link to an article I wrote for the Seed website a couple of months ago. For a small community of around 320 families, Mampuján has a surprisingly large number of eating options. These range from two restaurants at the front of the town, another along a side street, several fruit stands, including women
I’m glad June is over. It was a hard month in many ways, including days of travel and too many days of meetings in Bogota. However, all of those days of meetings did provide the opportunity to eat a lot of delicious food. And while I don’t enjoy the freedom everyone in my community feels
There is a popular article circulating around the internet about the 30 things every woman should have and know by the time they are 30. As someone who is preparing for an especially intense annual birthday crisis on June 16, I read the article with interest, only to find myself almost laughing out loud. The
“Anna, do you think the reparations will arrive by Friday? I really need some money by Friday.” “Normally, I’d be planting corn at this time of year, but they told us the reparations were coming soon, so I decided to wait until I had the money to buy the seed. Now, I don’t know what
I have decided to make of list of at least one good, or perhaps just random, thing that happens to me every day. It will help me to remember some of the small details of what happens here and also give me something to be thankful for. As well, this will help the rest of
As The Women Sew by Sue Gilmurray When the times are hard and the going’s tough, when you work all day and it’s not enough, when there is no bread, and the children cry, and the menfolk curse, and the women sigh, then the women sew, and their stitches speak of a spirit strong though
I’ve been looking over my blog and have realized that I have mentioned a lot of the big things that have gone on around here, but many of the little, ordinary details of daily life are sorely lacking. So, without further ado, here are some glimpses of daily life! 1. Food a. Roots and rice
I’m sad this week. Not for any sort of existential crisis or deep questionings of my place in this community, but because things didn’t work out they way we wanted them to in our most anticipated event of the year. Instead of bringing the community together, we seem to be further and further apart. As
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